South Carolina Sunsets
For the woman who had to start over later than she ever planned.
Julie, her sister, her mother and a whole island of neighbors who turn into family. My most-read series, with over 1 million copies sold.
Clean Southern women's fictionThe heroine is finally your age.
Small-town Southern novels, most of them about women in their forties and up, who start over, find their people, and sometimes fall in love. Just Kisses, no bad language, and every book ends happy.
★★★★★11-time USA Today bestselling author · 2.5 million+ copies sold
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Is this you?
You've been the supporting character long enough.
You've raised the kids, buried a parent or two, maybe walked out of a marriage or been left by one. Then you open a novel and the heroine is twenty-five, with a city job and a closet full of shoes.
Most of my books since 2019 star women in their forties and up, the women you know. In The Beach House, Julie's husband leaves her at 43 for a secret family, and she starts over on a little Lowcountry island with her sister and her mother close by. She's starting over later than she planned, the way a lot of us have.
It's almost like Rachel looked into my soul and wrote about me.
A note from me
I write the books I couldn't find.
I'm Rachel. I started writing women's fiction in my forties because women our age kept showing up as side characters, and I think we're more interesting than that.
So my books put her in the middle of the story. She's starting over, and sometimes she falls in love along the way. I write clean because that's how I like to write. Nobody has to hide my books from the grandkids.
11Ă—USA Today bestseller
2Ă—Wall Street Journal bestseller
2.5M+copies sold
54+books
Happy reading!
Rachel Hanna
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Beach towns on the Carolina and Georgia coast, or the North Georgia mountains. Not sure? I'll match you in three taps.
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Settle in and stay a while.
Every series has more books waiting, so when you love the town, you get to go back.
Where most readers start
The Beach House
Her husband had a secret family. At 43, Julie starts over on a small Lowcountry island.
★★★★★ 4.3 stars from 37,000+ ratings
Read the first chapter freeWhen you finish, 12 more books are waiting in Seagrove.
“This was my first Rachel Hanna book and now I am on a mission to read all of her books.”
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January Cove
For the woman life knocked flat, who's ready to get back up.
A Georgia beach town where people find love again. A complete series of ten books.
The North Georgia Mountains
For the woman who needs a front porch, a mountain view and a little quiet.
Sweet Tea B&B and Whiskey Ridge, two complete mountain series in one bundle of 11 books.
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Seagrove Special Editions
For the woman who wants to keep the books she loves.
Three full Seagrove novels in each hardcover, with sprayed page edges and original cover art. You won't find these on Amazon.
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Don't take my word for it.
250,000+ reader ratings across my books.
“I hadn't read a book in over 40 years! Now I have read all 11 in that series!!!”
“I like to call these fun, clean books "flinch-free!"”
“Shhh… I called in sick to work because I can't stop reading!”
“A well written love story without filthy language or graphic description of sex acts.”
“I feel like I know these people. You are so good at writing!”
“I call Rachel Hanna's books my 'recovery books.'”
Love Amazon? So do I. My books are there too.
A few things you can only get in my store:
Bundles
They cost less than buying one at a time. The first ten South Carolina Sunsets eBooks are $39.99, about $4 a book.
Hardcover special editions
Sprayed edges and original cover art, never sold on Amazon.
Paperback bundles
Packed by my small family team and wrapped up cute with stickers and a bookmark.
eBooks emailed in minutes
Read them on a Kindle, iPad, phone or the free BookFunnel app.
Not techy? That's fine. BookFunnel walks you through it, and a real person on my team answers support@rachelhannaauthor.com.
If you close this page
Tonight could look like most nights.
The TV's on, the phone keeps buzzing, and the book on your nightstand is about somebody half your age. You'll tell yourself you'll find something good to read this weekend, and then the weekend fills up.
You've done a lot of things for a lot of people. You get to have a story that's yours.
Inside a Rachel Hanna book
Here's where you'll be by chapter 2.
You're on a porch in a little Lowcountry town where strangers wave from their porches. The woman at the center of the story is your age. She's been through it, and she's funny about it. You know her sister, because you have one like her.
You stay up later than you meant to. You laugh out loud in the doctor's waiting room. When you finish, you go straight to book 2, because Seagrove feels like a place you get to go back to.
“the people of Seagrove have become like family to me.”
Can't decide?
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Three taps and I'll hand you the right one.
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What's happening in October
- All of October: a month-long Fall Festival.
- Last week of October: a five-part January Cove ghost tour story, for paid members.
- New book, November 9: The Silver Bell.
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